Removed from CRAN

[aramirezreyes]

Describe the bug

As of April 24 2024, the package is no longer available on CRAN and cannot be installed via install.packages("httpgd"). The page shows:

Package ‘httpgd’ was removed from the CRAN repository.

Formerly available versions can be obtained from the [archive](https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/httpgd).

Archived on 2025-04-23 as issues were not corrected in time

A summary of the most recent check results can be obtained from the [check results archive](https://cran-archive.r-project.org/web/checks/2025/2025-04-23_check_results_httpgd.html).

Please use the canonical form https://cran.r-project.org/package=httpgd to link to this page.

To Reproduce

1. Visit https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/httpgd/index.html
2. install.packages("httpgd")

Expected behavior

The package should be reachable in CRAN and it should be able to be installed via install.packages("httpgd")

Screenshots

Environment

• OS: Cent OS Linux 7
• Browser:
• R version: 4.0.3
• httpgd version:

Additional context

The errors in the checks seem to be related to eddelbuettel/asioheaders#10 and eddelbuettel/asioheaders#9 from the AsioHeaders.

[nx10]

The amount of time we have been getting flagged and removed is getting somewhat ridiculous. This isnt even an issue with httpgd but with upstream asio. (And not a real issue in my opinion just syntax deprecated in a newer c++ version flagged after they made us remove pinning the version)

As always I encourage people to install from GitHub and apologize for the trouble. I am very busy these days and will try and find time to address this as soon as I can.

Edit: Just to be clear: I do appreciate the work that all folks over at CRAN do, I just don't have the time to address their issues every time they bump their compiler version. If anyone is interested in co-maintaining httpgd & unigd please reach out!

[r2evans]

If anyone is interested in co-maintaining httpgd & unigd please reach out!

Some of the bugs (my "hangs" one in particular, for me) require a deeper knowledge of what's going on. I recognize your time. I am interested in at least submitting a PR or two, but knowing how and/or where to find the root cause takes a bit more than "simple" R debugging. If you have thoughts on where to start looking and perhaps advice on how best to debug either this or unigd, it would be appreciated.

[aramirezreyes]

I understand the frustration!
Do you have any advice on how did you fix this the last time it happened? (in case I or someone else can take a look at it)

[AliSajid]

This is very frustrating, and I can understand. I have just checked that httpgd is available over at the r-universe repository. Would you consider an alternate Installation section that talks about how to add that repository and use it to install httpgd? and would you consider adding unigd to r-universe's Repository Repository as well?

[eitsupi]

The R-multiverse community repository is tied to the GitHub releases.
https://community.r-multiverse.org/builds

Currently the GitHub release of this repository is behind the CRAN release, but should be a suitable alternative when a proper release is created.

You can also use CRANhaven for short periods of time (90 days after removal from CRAN).
https://www.cranhaven.org/

[mcanouil]

Could it be possible to make a GitHub release for 2.0.4? (installing from GitHub is not always possible but installing from the default development branch is for sure impossible in some context)

[bbolker]

For what it's worth remotes::install_version("httpgd", "2.0.4") works for me (installs from source). (I've been meaning to write an install_latest_version() function that looks at the archive page for a package to find the latest version number, but so far I just do it manually.)

[benz0li]

@nx10 Could you please provide a new version of httpgd to CRAN before R 4.5.1 is released on Friday, 13 June?

Otherwise, this package will not be part of the P3M Snapshot for 2025-06-13, which I intend setting CRAN to.

[kassyray]

Anyone else trying to install an archived version in a Dockerfile? Trying to get this back into our env but my builds keep failing.

[benz0li]

Anyone else trying to install an archived version in a Dockerfile? Trying to get this back into our env but my builds keep failing.

@kassyray Yes. See https://github.com/b-data/jupyterlab-r-docker-stack/blob/eb5a3745bd4c04a3de8c4b0a757357e5909ef02e/base/latest.Dockerfile#L428-L435.
ℹ You may need to install unigd and AsioHeaders beforehand.

It works: https://gitlab.b-data.ch/jupyterlab/r/base/-/jobs/178186

[nx10]

Tagged 2.0.4 as requested - not a version functionally different to 2.0.3. Just fixes a deprecation warning requested by CRAN.

Will come back to this when time allows.